British passport query - help please

Hi guys, long time no post. Anyway, a friend of mine with a British birth certificate is trying to apply for a passport. Completely legit, her dad is a UK citizen, but her mother and I have been searching every where for:

1. the reference number,
2. the certificate number,
3. the section.

If anyone knows their way around a UK birth cert, I'd really appreciate it. Cheers, TG.

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Hi guys, long time no post. Anyway, a friend of mine with a British birth certificate is trying to apply for a passport. Completely legit, her dad is a UK citizen, but her mother and I have been searching every where for:

1. the reference number,
2. the certificate number,
3. the section.

If anyone knows their way around a UK birth cert, I'd really appreciate it. Cheers, TG.

I think your best bet is to go onto the uk government's website,it tells you all you need to know.don't know if your in the uk but you can always search for your nearest post office that does 'check and send' they will make sure you have all the relevant paperwork before they send it off (for an extra fee of course)

Cheers for the replies guys, but directgov.uk seems to explain everything BUT those three things in their documentation. I've been through it a million times over the last few hours. The reference number might be okay, but the other two are enigmas.

Not sure, for me I had to take my birth cert to the American embassy here in London to get all the information and relevant forms for dual nationality.
There must be something for people to get British passports and all the help they need. My sister had to do it years ago, can't remember where but it is central London. I had a look on Google and found British embassies website but no address was clearly shown.

I got a copy of my birth certificate not so long ago, cost about 6 quid and did it all online. I'll see if I can remember how. All you need is the name at birth and the district the hospital you were registered at as a baby. If that's why you mean?

@revan8
I reckon you're thinking of the big passport office near Victoria Station. They're pretty good but I wouldn't recommend going there without an appointment. Wouldn't a Citizens' Advice Bureau be able to help?

The birth certificate or format has probably changed, what they're asking for might well be on newer certificates and not on older ones. I guess not many adults are applying for passports with birth certificates of late. I'd get in touch with the general register office as see what they say.

I was contracting to a farmer last year who had lost is wife to cancer a couple of years before I stated the job, anyway while I was working for him he decided to go on a cruise around south east Asia, while in the trip he meet a lady form Hong Kong who was in the same boat(pun), anyway she turn out to be a very successful business women who supplied items to the likes of GAP and Next and was a multi million heir.

After a short romance they got married and when she came over here they found out because they had got hitched she was eligible to get full pension...!

The passport office in London is in Petty France, if you have the required docs and are prepared to wait several hours I believe you can get a UK passport the same day there. If you are applying by post, a good tip used to be to send the form off to the Belfast passport office who were a bit less busy than the one on the mainland and so you would get your new passport back in a matter of days, not sure if this is still the case nowadays though...

Just in case it helps somebody else, it turns out that the birth cert we had was INDEED the long one, but that there is no registration number or section number on it. In fact, that section of the passport form we thought we had to fill out is unnecessary as it turns out, as her daughter was born in London, even though she lives in Japan now.

Thanks for all the help anyway everyone, and sorry to hear about your grandma mal. That sucks. :-/

I just renewed my passport and was amazed at the quick turnaround. I used the passport checking service at the post office which cost a further £8 but I got it in 12 days rather than the customary 3 weeks.

Anyway.

I didn't get my birth certificate back with the passport as they've always done previously. The passport wasn't sent to me by regular post, but arrived by courier at 8 in the evening. Does anyone know if they going to send my birth certificate back separately or am I going to have to chase it around like a mug?

So I went through an e-passport gate yesterday. Step 1, scan your passport, wait for the green arrow. Step 2, stand in front of a camera and (in my case) gurn, grimmace, smirk, essentially try not to laugh. The woman monitoring the bank of e-gates was having a chuckle no doubt.